The rapid reversal after the economic crisis
Brands like Texas Instruments, Altera, a lot of parts were out of stock. This situation was covering almost all brands and lasted for more than 26 weeks. The unit price of TMS320F2812PGFA was risen from less than US$10 to more than US$200.
The earthquake in Japan
All Japanese brands faced the problem of materials shortage so prices of their products were skyrocketing. As an upstream country, the supply of integrated circuit materials, Japan had almost affected the delivery date of all BGA packaging products, causing prices skyrocketing.
The unprecedented flood in Thailand
Thailand is one of the important packaging countries. Unprecedented flood caused a complete collapse of various materials shortage, especially the hard drives. With the sweeping of goods by major PC manufacturers, prices were risen by more than 80%. MICROCHIP and ROHM parts were also out of stock on a large scale, and prices skyrocketed.
The fire disaster of SK-HYNIX factory in WUXI
The fire spread to the entire memory industry, causing the imbalance between the supply and demand of memory parts, so the price rose by more than 40%, which lasted until 2014.
Global smartphone shipments exploded
Sony COMS sensor chips ware out of stock, and the supply of downstream was imbalanced. Almost all camera module brands experienced an unprecedented wave of price increase due to stockout.
Counterattack of NOR FLASH and MLCC
RENESAS automotive MCU were out of stock on a large scale, therefore, automakers were forced to make adjustment.
NOR FLASH small capacity was out of stock. PC28F640, unit price $50; PC28F128 unit price was over $100. Low production of 3D NAND, reduced production of 2D NAND, and rapidly increasing demands of mobile phone, all lead to out of stock of memory parts at a large extent and prices skyrocketing.
ST 32-bit single-chip microcomputers had also been out of stock for a long time due to the explosive growth of shared bicycles.
MLCC created the myth of out of stock, and even caused the scandal of the auction of MLCC hosted by YaGeo.
The epidemic + Fire + Global shortage of Wafer
The epidemic broken out globally, and the materials related to ventilators had skyrocketed. Materials for forehead temperature gun were also extremely hard to find.
ST's MCU, F0/F1 series were out of stock, and prices skyrocketed by 30%-100%.
The AKM factory caught fire, and the price of a large number of AUDIO chips increased by dozens or even 100 times, which refreshing the historical record of shortage in the industry, and refreshing people's cognition of shortage.
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